Three Cups of Tea

There is nothing I love more than hearing the stories of people who have allowed their lives to make a difference in this world. This is exactly the story of Greg Mortenson, who's amazing adventure is recorded in the book Three Cups of Tea.

Greg grew up as the son of missionaries on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, and developed a passion for mountain climbing. After moving back to the states, Greg worked just enough hours as a nurse in order to finance his next mountain climbing adventure.

The fateful trip that changed Greg's life forever and was an attempt at climbing the second biggest and the most difficult peak in the world, K2 in Pakistan. On the trip, Greg was separated from his climbing group, he eventually ended up
weak and exhausted and close to death in a little village called Korphe. The village people cared for him and when he was ready to find his way back to a city he asked how he could repay their kindness. The people asked for a school for their children.



Greg made it back to the states, but couldn't forget the request of the village in Pakistan. He was nothing more a mountain climber, with no experience starting rural schools in a volatile country like Pakistan. But, nonetheless Greg went back to work, lived out of his car, and saved every penny he made in order to buy building supplies for the village.

Through a series of miraculous events Greg was entrusted with a large amount of money, to start building. To date, Greg has built over 78 schools throughout Pakistan and Afghanistan, educating over 28,000 children. Children who's only other offer at education is from terrorist organizations that teach them militant Islam.




Greg Mortenson is now head of The Central Asia Institute who's goal is to build even more schools and to provide education for girls in countries where education is only offered to boys.

To me, the amazing thing is that Greg was just a regular guy going about his everyday life when he was presented with a chance to make a difference. He was not given an easy chance, he was presented with a huge, some would say impossible task of building a school in a country he knew next to nothing about, with no funds, no experience, and no one to help. But Greg still decided to go for it, and now over 28,000 children have been given an education. What an amazing life!



Read the book, the entire story is incredible! I promise you will enjoy it and be amazingly inspired.